The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-05
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81, 800, 900.
RUBTss are now produced chemically in great
perfection.
THE head of the Sultan's harem is now a
Christian woman-beautifld. cultivated, and a
Spaniard.
THz ''melograph'' has been invented, by which
a person can improvise on piano and have the
music recorded
THE German authorities in Alsace- Lorraine
have stopped the granting of all hunting
licenses to the French residents in the annexed
provinces.
DR.. JEssrP, of the British Medical Associa-
tion, says that the wearing of high-heeled shoes
so alters the centre of gravity as to ca use re
turn to tho habit of 'tailless apes who walk on
| their toes.
In French country houses the fashionable
sport is frog Spearing. The weapon used re
setnbles cioss.bow, and the barbed arrows al e
attached 10 the bows by silken string, so as to
haul the frog in when he is pierced
HORSE grazing on the bank of Higgins Lake,
Mich, saw Mrs. Charles H. Petit and her little
daughter drowning, jumped into the lake, swan
out to them, made them understand they were
TO take his name, and then carried them safely
to the shore.
ADDITIONAL Doodle on rather extensive scale
| was necessary to maintain legal defenses about
bert Stickney, SO, 900: ex-Judge William A. Full
lerton. $1,000, and Peter Mitchell and ex-Judgc
Homer A. Nelson, $1,000 each-SG0,0 900 in all.
VIENNA paper finds q direct connection be-
| tween the growing consumption on the part of
| the Vienuese OF Hungarian goose livers and the
| Carlsbad mineral water. Last year no less than
| 40 quintalS of Hung irian goose livers, repre-
senting value of 10000 FORMS were brought
to Vienna.
Mrs. GEORGE BARNARD, a wealthy lady of
Boston, went to Mattapoisett fifteen years ago
and bought the town. This is hardly a figure of
speech, for she bought all of its waterfront and
several OF It's streets, at an average price OF
$500 per acre, including the houses. What she
has since sold has been at the rate of ST. 800 per
acre. not including the houses.
The cost of producing Verdi's "Otello'' at
Milan has been enormous. For each perform
ance Siguor Tamagno received 500 lire $4,000,
Signor Maurel 5000 and Signora Gabbi 1900 lire.
The leader, Sgnor Facio, was paid 500 lire and
the orchestra and the choir received 1900 and
| 1900 lire respectively. In addition, the com
| poser S share was 1000 lire for every perform
ance.
The projected lighting of the Royal Must u ms
| of Berlin by electricity has been vetoed by the
| Prussian Minister of Public obstruction. who
I thinks that the public has ample facilities for
| visiting the museums in daytime. Only the
| Museum for Art Industry which already pos
SesSeS the necessary appliances, will be lighted
by electricity and be accessible to the public in
| the evening hours.
MISS ANNA BELLE FRINK of Brownsville,
Tenn, is visiting her uncle in jackson. The
| Forked Deer Blade adds this suggestive SEN
| tence to q notice of the young lady's arrival:
| "A certain young in this city is hereby in
formed that his visits to her will not be tolerated
| by her friends, and any effort on his part to
call on her will result in unpleasantnesS to him,
| if not in bodily harm"
ductors, the men who make a business of firt-
| ing with the conductors are called ''mosoui
| toes, because they swarm so thickly saround
the cars and are so great nuisance. AS the
women are young and pretty in their neat uni
| forms of blue flannel and a many -pocketed
white pnafOrA trimmed with frills tits not sur
prising that they attract passengers b9Tqa 3.
A PROMINENT Merchant of Tekofsha Nfieh
suffered a strange alteration of mind the other
day. From the time he arose until afternoon be
knew absolutely nothing that was TRANSFERRING
about him. although around the store and fry,
| ing to do business He could not tell the prices
or the most common articles of merchandise,
and failed to recognize people that he has known
for years. The next day he was all right again.
| A LADY has written to Mayor Hewitt, of New
York, as follows: TO Mr. He,Citt MdyoY of
| the city of NeW York. SIR-Please order the
poor innocent and useful cats to be fed twice a
week in the city parks fresh liver cut up in
| small pieces, as they do in Paris, France. The
poor cats could in this way be enabled to live to
| kill the rats on the docks and the nasty fight
| ing, numerous sparrows in the parks and all
over
| THERE is a hotel for colored people in Sara
/ toga which is extremely select in its way. Mr..
| Broughton, the proprietor is said to be worth
| $500, 600. Among his guests this wear have been
\ several young colored women of wealth and
position Two of them wore diamonds of great
value. One of these dusky beauties was con
sldered the belle of Saratoga by her race, and
| her somewhat naughty manners showed that
| she realized what is due to a queen of beauty
MANY PEOPLE have heard of the singing beach
at Manchester, Mass, where the sand, when
driven over or stirred, gives out peculiar and
not unmusical sound, but few, very few. people
| know that near Pescadero Cal. beach exists
| much larger, giving out sounds in no uncertain
| manner. The beach near Manchester is said to
be one-fifth of mile in extent, but at Pescadero
| an investigating party found the sounds very
clear, though varying in loudneSs for a distance
| of one and half miles along the coast line The
| sound is loudest and most distinct where the
sand is dry on top and damp beneath. light
| vehicle driven over it gives a clear. musical
sound, footStep not quite so loud. and even the
| hands or u stick stirring or lifting the sand
| causes it to sing quite plainly
THAT prolific producer of diluted sensational
| ism and sentimentalism, The Duchess" has
achieved the summit of literary distinction. An
enuefprlSlnS chicago publisher has fathered (or
should it be motheredY on her novel of whose
| preparation she is innocent, aud the work is
having great sale in consequence. 1t is called
valerie. or Half Truth, - and narrates in a
| round half hundred chapters the sghings and
| spoonings OF a dreamy creature with q pure
creamy skin aud wondrous eyes, and masses of
rich brown hair. year ago Valerie sighed
and spoOned to an enchanted public in the
| Young Ladies journal, of London as the child
of "a new author and the editor of the journal
| now denies that under this haf.fiedged title was
concealed the mature identity of the author of
molly Bawn"
| THE chair of ecclesiastical law in the Univer-
sity of Wurzburg became recently vacant and
the Bishop of Wurzburg petitioned the Bavarian
government to fill the position, not as hitherto
by the appointment of Protestant but by that
of a Catholic professor. As the government has
| so far found consi derable difficulty In finding
any one, regardless of religion, competent to
| fill the position, owing to the inc,mbents being
obliged to lecture not only on Roman and Pro
testant ecclesiastical law, but also on CONNER
cial law, il has been decided to create an addi
tional professorsbip and appoint Protest ant
to the chair of Protestant Ecclesiastical Law
and Commercial Law and Catholic to that of
Catholic Ecclesiastical Law. DR.. Karl MAYER
who had just received a call to Strasbourg has
been appointed to the former position.
The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh are so
penurious that at times it makes them really ri
diculous, says q recent writer. | was told by a
gentleman living In Sidmouth, on the Devon
shire coast, that during "A Z )rm the yacht with